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dark brown with a reddish tinge. Seeds oblong, •? to '8 in. long, -2 in. broad, 

 acute at base, slightly narrowed alDOve and then broadening below the 

 1 to 1'5 in. long white-silky persistent coma; testa thin, dark brown; 

 albumen moderate; cotyledons lanceolate, '5 to "6 in. long, -1 in. broad; 

 radicle short. 



Penang: at Balick Pulau, Curtis 838. Peeak: King's Collector 5194. 



We have been a good deal in doubt of the genus of this species ; in the Kew 

 Herbarium it was placed with Chonemorpha, but the comparatively small flowers and 

 different seeds distinguish it from that genus ; in some respects it comes most nearly 

 to Epigtjnum, but on the whole we prefer to keep it where we first placed it in 

 Trachelospermum, to which genus it seems to us to come most near, especially in the 

 characters of the inflorescence and the fruit. There is in the Kew Herbarium a 

 species (unnamed) which approaches very near to this. It has been sent from the 

 Khasia Hills (HooJc.f. and Th.) ; from Manipur [Watt 7272) ; and from Yunan [Henry 

 12136). When it comes to be described with full material, it is by no means unlikely 

 that the two will be found to require a new genus. 



30. Epigynum, Wight. 

 Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, penninerved, the nerves arching. 

 Floioers canescent-tomentose, in dense subcapitate corymbose or pani- 

 culate leafy cymes at the ends of the branches. Calyx small, 5-fid ; 

 the lobes narrow, eglandular or with few glands. Corolla hypocra- 

 teriform ; the tube elongate, dilated opposite the stamens ; the throat 

 villous, without scales ; lobes 5, twisted to the left or nearly erect, over- 

 lapping to the right. Stamens inserted below the middle of the tube, 

 included ; filaments short ; anthers linear-sagittate, acuminate, connivent 

 around the stigma and hardly adhering to it ; cells spurred at the base. 

 Dish fleshy, 5-lobed, lining the calyx-tube. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, 

 dorsally adnate to the disk and surmounted by it ; style filiform ; stigma 

 cylindric, with annular base and conical tip ; ovules many in each carpel. 

 Fruit of two linear terete distinct follicular mericarps sometimes torulose. 

 Seeds elongate, compressed, broad at the tip and crowned with a thick 

 coma of silky hairs ; testa very thin ; albumen moderate or scanty ; 

 cotyledons oblong, narrow, foliaceous; radicle short, superior. — Distrib. 

 ■ Malay Peninsula and Archipelago ; about 4 to 5 species. 



Leaves elliptic ; main nerves 6 to 7 pairs, straight at first :— 



Leaves glabrous beneath except for tufts in the nerve-axils ; 



corolla-tube grey-tomentose without .. .. ..1. E. perakense. 



Leaves tomentose beneath, not tufted in the nerve-axils ; 



corolla-tube tawny-tomentose without . . . . 2. E. Maingaiji. 



Leaves lanceolate ; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, curved ; corolla- 

 tnbe greyish-tawny-tomentose : — 



Leaves prominently tawny-villous in the nerve-axils and along 



the midrib beneath, otherwise glabrous ; flower-buds under 



•75 in. long; corolla-lobes rounded at tip .. .. 3. E. Curtisii. 



